The Katrin Cartlidge Foundation Award, traditionally announced at the Sarajevo Film Festival, has been awarded to the young director Dyana Gaye. Her short film Dewenti was screened last night at the! hej Open Air cinema.
This year’s curator, actor Danny Glover, presented the Katrin Cartlidge Foundation Award.
Glover is also this year’s honorary guest of the SFF.
Dyana Gaye was born in Paris in 1975, and graduated from the University of Paris VIII – Saint-Denis with a Master of Film Studies. In 1999, she won the Scholarship Louis Lumière – Villa Medicis Hors les murs for her screenplay Une Femme Pour Souleymane and which will obtain numerous awards at international festivals. Meanwhile, Dyana Gaye worked as a programmer to ACID (Agency for the Independent Film Distribution) for several years. In 2004, she realized J’ai Deux Amours that is part of a series of 15 short films titled PARIS, La Metisse. Her latest short film, Dewenti has received numerous awards and was nominated for the César for short film in 2008.
(Source: SFF; Photo Source: SFF)
